Nutrition Goes to School: a School-based Nutrition Intervention to Promote Healthy Eating Behaviour Among Adolescents

"The NGTS Program intervention package in this project consists of four components:~1. A comprehensive Nutrition Education to improve healthy eating, physical activity, and hygiene-sanitation practices.~ This is a weekly interactive and fun nutrition and health promotion with different kinds of activities.~2. Healthy School Canteen to improve the availability of healthy food in school. This is an effort to strengthen the school canteen referring to the 4 Pillars of a Healthy School Canteen, including School Commitment and Management, Human Resources, Facilities and Infrastructure, and Food Quality.~3. School Garden. This is a gardening activity as a form of school garden as a media for nutrition education, character building, and contribute to supply vegetables during cooking class sessions in school.~4. Entrepreneurship nutrition. Entrepreneurship nutrition aims to foster entrepreneurial potential and skills among school members in providing healthy food at school."

The intervention schools will receive Nutrition Education Capacity Building for Teachers and School Management, before the above four NGTS components is implemented in the respective school. Three representatives from each school will be invited to attend a 5-day training that include knowledge on adolescent nutrition and health issues, as well as skills in implementing the NGTS Program.